Torney'S Court Farmhouse

ST 77 SW 8/10 17.9.52

COLD ASHTON C.P. HALL LANE Torney's Court Farmhouse

G.V. II

Farmhouse. Late C17 with later additions and alterations, C20 dormers. Rubble, rendered to front and right return, stone dressings, double Roman tiled roof with raised coped verges and gable stacks. Symmetrical, front L-plan. 2½ storeys, 5 windows, ground floor has 4 cross windows with wide ovolo mullions and transoms, 4 panes to lower lights, 2 to upper, central C20 plank door with overlight in moulded stone surround; all first floor windows of 2 lights, 4 panes each with wide ovolo mullions and moulded surrounds, 3 gabled dormers, single storey lean-to to left with C20 window, render partly removed. Right return has 2 windows, all cross windows as on front at ground and first floor, 2 smaller 2-light windows at attic level with same mullions and surround; left return has 2-light window at first floor as on front with C20 glazing, 2 attic windows as at right return. Rear of main house has gable end to left, 2-light window at first floor as on front with leaded lights remaining to right, single storey lean-to with C20 door, inner door in chamfered stone surround. Rear wing of 2 storeys and 2 windows, varied at left return including 3 dormers, to right return has 3 windows, first floor has two 2-light and central 3-light window as on front but with C20 glazing, blocked single light in 2nd bay from right; ground floor has two 2-light C19 casements and one single light casement, door in 2nd bay from right in plain stone surround. Interior: through passage; front left room has large fireplace with heavy timber lintel, recess to right, deep chamfered beam, windows chamfered at inside, front right room divided, has shell cornice and round-headed recess to each side of C20 fireplace. Winder stair at rear of passage, attic altered as living accommodation, C19 5-bay roof only partially visible, one row of purlins, principal rafters and collar, brace below principal rafters. Torney's Court Farmhouse was one of 3 manors in the parish of Cold Ashton.

Listing NGR: ST7400570777